Marx-Engels Collected Works,Volume 28 - Marx: 1857-1861

Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others, consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and issued between 1975 and 2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York City). Politics,Marxism Contents 2 Preface 8 Bastiat and Carey 28 Avantpropos 28 XIV. Des Salaires 34 Introduction 40 I. Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange (Circulation) 40 1. Production 40 2. The General Relation of Production to Distribution, Exchange and Consumption 49 ( a) [ Consumption and Production] 50 ( b) [ Distribution and Production] 55 ( c) Lastly, Exchange and Circulation 59 3. The Method of Political Economy 60 4. Production. Means of Production and Relations of Production. Relations of Production and Conditions of Communication. Forms of the State and of Consciousness in Relation to the Relations of Production and of Commerce. Legal Relations. Family Relations 68 Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy ( Rough Draft of 1857- 58) [ First Instalment] 72 II. Chapter on Money 74 Alfred Darimon, De la Réforme des Banques, Paris, 1856 74 [ The Origin and Essence of Money] 101 [ The Precious Metals as Expression of the Money Relationship] 133 ( a) Gold and Silver in Comparison with the Other Metals Ill ( b) Fluctuations in the Value Ratio of the Different Metals 138 [ Money Circulation] 144 ( a) [ Money as Measure of Value] 146 ( b) [ Money as a Means of Circulation] 151 ( c) Money as Material Representative of Wealth. (Accumula tion of money. But first we have still to consider money as the general material of contracts, etc.) 161 III. Chapter on Capital 194 [ Section One] [ The Process of Production of Capital] 194 [ Transformation of Money into Capital] 194 1. Circulation and Exchange Value Deriving from Circulation as a Prerequisite of Capital 213 2. Exchange Value Emerging from Circulation Becomes Its Premiss, Maintains Itself in It and Multiplies Itself by Means of Labour 217 Exchange between Capital and Labour 227 [ Labour Process and Process of Valorisation] 253 [ Absolute and Relative Surplus Value] 290 [ Surplus Value and Profit] 314 [ Section Two] [ Circulation Process of Capital] 352 [ Reproduction and Accumulation of Capital] 352 [ Forms Preceding Capitalist Production] 422 [ Circuit and Turnover of Capital] 462 [ Theories of Surplus Value and Profit] 496 Chapter on Money as Capital 194 NOTES AND INDEXES 564 Notes 564 Name Index 585 Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature 591 Index of Periodicals 599 Subject Index 600 Illustrations 564 Back of the cover and page 1 of Notebook M containing the Introduction 44 Cover of Notebook VII of the manuscript Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy 76 Page 3 of Notebook IV of Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy 326 Page 24 of Notebook IV of Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy 370